DX11: Aliens vs Predator

Aliens vs. Predator is a science fiction first-person shooter video game, developed by Rebellion, and published by Sega for Microsoft Windows, Sony PlayStation 3, and Microsoft Xbox 360. Aliens vs. Predator utilizes Rebellion's proprietary Asura game engine, which had previously found its way into Call of Duty: World at War and Rogue Warrior. The self-contained benchmark tool is used for our DirectX-11 tests, which push the Asura game engine to its limit.

In our benchmark tests, Aliens vs. Predator was configured to use the highest quality settings with 4x AA and 16x AF. DirectX-11 features such as Screen Space Ambient Occlusion (SSAO) and tessellation have also been included, along with advanced shadows.

Test Summary: In the Alien vs Predator benchmark it is the turn of the AMD hardware to show what it is made of. With its extreme overclock the HIS HD6870 is able to beat a stock GTX 560Ti. If this is your sort of game you would be best to own an AMD card. The HIS HD6870 IceQ X Turbo X handles its own and delivers above average frame rates at both resolutions.

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Also don't look for the fan on this card to last much longer than a year they're cheap sh!t fans the fan on this card is the same as my HD5770's which is only six months old and is already noisy as hell I think if you remove it and try looking for a way to re-lube it you'll find it's an completely sealed unit

I took a look at the HIS 5770 cards and I noticed that the cards that don't have radial fans have 9 blade fans, this card has an 11 blade fan which may be a better design, or I may live to eat my words...

All I know is that they are pretty damn good right now, noise and cooling wise.

looks like somebody did theie home work on this one .. More information than I need but Im sure other like . question what plugs into the mini dp ??? something new to me been out of the loop. acording to the stats this card is a great buy .. Fast and cool makes it very COST EFFECTIVE.bore bang for the buck .The color blue very pleasing to the eye and a 90mm fan heat sinks for cooling really doing a job that others leave to water cooling .. overall I would purchace this card ..

HIS are looking into the issue and we hope to have a resolution in good time, whether it's just this card or all of their 6870 IceQ X Turbo X cards will remain to be seen till then. If this card didn't have the fan issue it would have quite possibly got a gold award.

I really like the review. I must say that I am fairly new to computers. I am looking around at many different video cards in the $200 to $250 Range.

My real question is does the 6950 version of this card have the same Fan profile issue as this card, 6870? I also took out of the review that this issue it not much of an issue. If I raise the fan speed will everything be fine?

Oki a little bit of info before the review is published, the 6850 and the 6950 HIS cards all have a very similar fan profile, the 6950 fan spins at 50% while the GPU is at 75°C on it's embedded auto profile... And yes, if you raise the fan speed above 60% (preferably 70% for good temps) you won't have an issue.

What, exactly, do you need to help you understand the meaning of the data? Tell us and we'll do our best to provide it.

The Hackintosh is stable...I'm still running the same hardware configuration I wrote about in the original article. I've been very happy with it and the only bump in the road was a system software update that killed the sound; a KEXT patch brought that back.

I plan to migrate the Hackintosh to the Sandy Bridge platform sometime this summer and will have a new article when that's ready.

Thank you for a deep review. The card looks neat, and it's pretty good performance-wise.Lower temps not only give space for overclocking, but also helps hardware live longer.Fan issue doesn't look good... oh well it's fixable.But the main reason I want this card is that it's quiter than other models with similar performance.

Hi!I have got 3 displays that I want to use with Eyefinity to play games like Bad Company 2 over 3 diplays to get a wider view. The problem is that my current graphics card does not support more than 2 displays. So my question is, does the IceQ X Turbo X support 3 displays? If it does, i'm probably going to buy one soon!

I know it says that, but on the box belonging to my old graphics card it also said something about up to four displays, but it turned out it only supported two :(Because of that I would like to know for sure that it supports three or four displays...

the setup for a triple monitor setup should be:1x DVI or HDMI monitor connected to the DVI or HDMI port1x DVI monitor connected to a DVI port1x ACTIVE displayport to DVI adaptered monitor.source: ##overclock.net/amd-ati/869715-radeon-6870-multiple-monitor-issues.html

I've heard alot about this card and 3D , i finally set my eyes on this for christmas but in some of the reviews they've been saying its good for 3D , will this work just as good on normal 1920x1080 HD games like Men of war , and stuff like that, 'cos im not bothered about 3D. Thanks

I think you've been confused with some of the marketing hype. Almost all games are 3D, at least in the sense that they generate 3D-like graphics with poloygons and shadows. Additionally, some of the new cards actually offer true 3D functionality with the use of special glasses or screens. 2D games still exist, but you'll only see them with parlor games like Solitaire or Minesweeper.